The Hungarian Cultural Institute, partner from the beginning of the festival, opens its doors to the third poetry-reading event of 2019. The scene will vibrate from the different languages and fresh poetry from all corners of Europe.

Three different voices, ideas and perspectives will collide, giving you the chance to discover five European cultures through poetry. The event offers the possibility to plunge into the rhythm of Hungarian, Spanish, Slovenian and Portuguese, while the translation in English will be screened on the 13th century city walls of Brussels!

Our guests:

Gábor ZSILLE (Hungary) poet, translator, publicist, and editor has received József Attila Prize, the most important literary award of Hungary. His works have been published in 72 lyrical and prose anthologies and as editor he worked on 55 volumes. He translates books from English and Polish.

Jure JAKOB (Slovenia) works in Ljubljana as a freelance cultural worker. His five poetry collections received numerous prizes. He won the Prešeren Fund Award, a prestigious Slovenian award for artists in 2019.

Raquel LANSEROS (Spain) poet, translator, anthologist and professor is one of the most recognized voices of contemporary poetry in Spain. She was chosen the most relevant Spanish-language female poet born after 1970. Her poetic work until the year 2016 was fully collected in one volume, partially translated into many languages, awarded major poetry prizes and included in numerous anthologies and literary publications all around the world.

Jorge VILHENA MESQUITA (Portugal) was born in 1960 in Porto. Living in Brussels since 1985, he is the co-founder of the poetry magazine DiVersos. He has published three collections and translated the poems of Petrarch, Shakespeare and Nietzsche.